For nearly thirty years, the flickering orange-on-black screens of the Bloomberg terminal have been omnipresent on trading floors and executive suite desks, maintaining a vital lifeline of data and communication. But now cost-effective competitors like Alpha Terminal have trimmed the data terminal fat, focusing instead on what investors and traders value the most.

As central banks move away from ultra-loose monetary policy, and the global economic expansion matures, bond fund managers will need to ensure their portfolios draw on a truly diverse range of sources of return and carefully consider portfolio risk if they are to generate yield in the current market environment.

Want the perfect retirement? Then save £13k a year - research

Researchers questioned 2,000 people about their perception of a happy retirement - finding that most of us long to retire by 63, with a three-bedroom home just 11 miles away from the rest of our family.

Most people said they wanted to have paid off the mortgage - leaving enough spare cash to take two holidays a year.
Four in ten (41%) would then like their grandchildren to visit weekly and 29% want...